OUTLINE OF A THESIS OR PAPER

TITLE

Abstract

• approx 1 page summary of the whole thesis

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Ch 1. Introduction

• Motivation and aims
  • why is this an important problem?
  • what are we trying to do?
• Contributions
  • what is the new ideas contributed by this work?
• Previous work
  • what have others already done

Ch 2. to n-2.

Body of the thesis
• all the background information so that the thesis is self contained so that an engineer not expert in this field can follow the thesis without referring to other books
• no results here (keep them reading)

Ch n-1.

Results - present all results here, preferably in graphical forms with tables etc. in appendices

Ch n.

• Conclusions - interpret your results
• Future work - present avenues for further study

Apendices